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Boston bombings in a restaurant. tell me about that. >> reporter: its fascinating. ive got to tell you. there are a lot of great details in this complaint, first and foremost. and if you go online and read them, its pretty interesting reading. but this is a footnote of all things on page 11 of this complaint. it says that about a month before the marathon bombings, when two of these three suspects, the two kazakhstani students, were having a meal with dzhokhar tsarnaev, that he explained to them...

Deportation. the night before dzhokhar tsarnaev was captured, the three friends saw the photos on cnn. prosecutors say one of them was texting with dzhokhar tsarnaev saying he looked like the suspect on tv. the complaint says tsarnaev responded with texts like, lol, things interpreted as jokes like, you better not text me. and this, quote, come to my room and take whatever you want. i asked attorney robert stall about that last text. >> it was no signal. i think its plain english meaning. >> but...

From his dorm room and two of them, dias kadyrbayev and azamat tazhayakov said they agreed to get rid of the backpack after concluding from news reports that dzhokhar tsarnaev was one of the boston marathon bombers. they found later officials found the backpack they removed in the land fill, the backpack contained in it, youve been going over this, fireworks, a jar of vaseline and homework assignment from umass dartmouth. the complaint says that the -- two of these defendants, kadyrbayev and taz...

Friend dzhokhar tsarnaev. >> and very specific because, you know, whether it was cnn or any other network it was wall to wall everywhere and if you passed by anyone, everyone knew this was going on. before we go to that, i want to draw your attention to a footnote in the complaint. it said during interviews, tazhayakov also informed the fbi agents that while eating a meal with dzhokhar and kadyrbayev, approximately one month prior to the marathon bombings, dzhokhar had explained to kadyrbayev an...

Kadyrbayev and azamat tazhayakov -- imagine losing your place in a blackberry. according to the indictment, the two are both nationals of kazakhstan who entered on student visa. they face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a quarter million dollars fine. robel philipos, the u.s. citizen, faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine. ill get back to this, but i want to bring in heather now. first, we want to go to david lee miller. heather hanson is here in st...

Stream of information played out into the criminal complaint today. >> shep: briefly, there is not an allegation that they knew about this in advance, right? >> the attacks in boston? >> shep: yeah. >> no. there is nothing in it that suggests they were part of a conspiracy to build a bomb, or they knew about it in advance, but there is a footnote that says a month before the attack in a conversation with one of the tsarnaev brothers, that their friend indicated that they knew how to make bombs. ...

And tossing it into a trash bag and into a dumpster and then lying about the entire thing to investigators. their attorneys say they didnt knowingly lie and didnt know any of that stuff was evidence in an investigation. they look forward to litigating this in court, erin. >> one interesting thing in the complai complaint, anyone that wants to read itd, its here. there is a footnote, brian that, says that the friends have actually while eating a meal with dzhokhar had discussed bomb making and at...

These two or three are part of a conspiracy to commit the crime prior or, conspiracy to commit further crimes. we have heard allegations that there may have been crimes planned. >> i dont think they have the evidence for that. because i think if they did they would have put it in this complaint. there are the possibility in a future arraignment to have a superseding arraignment to have more charges. thats rare. they usually put everything that they have. because we talked earlier about that foot...

Whether or not they met tamerlan who everybody believes was the ring leader here. was the instigator of the plot. the one who went over to russia. the one who had the youtube account with the radical jihadi videos. so, i mean, certainly the fbi would be drilling down on that. what did they know about tamerlan, how much did they meet him? you also picked up on that fascinating reference in the footnote in the complaint that they had discussions in which dzhokhar had volunteered just a month befor...

>> you ask a good question and make a good point. the key is exactly what you said. all of these things that were talking about here, we have the law enforcement community, they have to take this information and take everything that they have gathered out there and so that they can go to court and its feasible enough for them to make charges against them. keep in mind, they have to have facts and thats everybody knows that. they have to have facts about everything that they are doing but they ha...